L. Guidi

Ubiquity of inverted 'gelatinous' ecosystem pyramids in the global ocean

The paper quantifies plankton community structure globally, revealing inverted biomass pyramids dominated by gelatinous organisms and predicting future shifts in oceanic carbon cycles.

Picoeukaryotic photosynthetic potential is functionally redundant but taxonomically structured at global scale

The paper uses machine learning to analyze metagenomic data and shows that C4-photosynthesis genomic potential in picoeukaryotes is functionally redundant but taxonomically structured globally.

Loss of the benthic life stage in Medusozoa and colonization of the open ocean

The paper shows that holoplanktonic medusozoans are more globally distributed and abundant than meroplanktonic ones, suggesting the loss of the benthic stage enabled open ocean colonization.

Global observation of plankton communities from space

The paper uses satellite data and machine learning to predict global plankton community distributions with 67% accuracy, outperforming temperature and chlorophyll a alone.

Genomic evidence for global ocean plankton biogeography shaped by large-scale current systems

The paper analyzes plankton genomic distribution across oceans to show how large-scale currents shape biogeography, revealing size-dependent patterns and basin-scale transport effects.

Eukaryotic virus composition can predict the efficiency of carbon export in the global ocean

This study links viral community composition to carbon export efficiency in the global ocean, finding that viral marker genes explain 67% of variation in CEE.